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Ketone Esters a Smart Supplement? | Pure Nitrate vs. Beets | Caffeine Muscle Recruitment, Power and Performance

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Time for a new installment of the supplement short news . I think it's about time for another installment of the short news, i.e. an article that consists of several brief write-ups on very recent papers. Today's topics are: (1) the question whether it is a smart move to consume ketone esters on top of Gatorade or similar products before your workout; (2) the difference in physiological effects of potassium nitrate and beetroot juice; and (3) how caffeine improves muscle recruitment and hence endurance performance. You can learn more about beetroot juice at the SuppVersity Mouthwash Ruins Benefits of Nitrates Nitrate Drugs Work, But Are Not Safe Win the Super Bowl w/ Beet- root Juice! 140ml of Beetroot Juice That All it Takes! Nitrate + Caf = Ergogenic Sledgehammer Beet Every Personal Best W/ Beets! Ketone esters may be smart to consume on top of carbohydrate supplement before and during high-intensity exercise ( Evans 2018 ) -- This is at least w...

Is 'Meat' Bad for us, or Rather the Products we Call 'Meat' - A Mix of Preservatives + Colorings That's Killing Us Slowly?

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Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce: the worst offenders in the "meat" category. Foods that owe their color, their taste, their shelf-life and their tolerable bacterial count to an amount of food additives that makes me question whether these food products are still "meats". You will probably remember from previous SuppVersity articles that the association between meat, cancer, diabetes and other ailments of the Western Diabesity Society often vanish when studies successfully adjust the odds ratios for developing one of multiple of these diseases for fresh (=unprocessed) vs. processed meat intake. One reason for this observation unquestionably is oxidative damage to the protein and fat content of meat product during processing. Unlike these factors and the oxidation of fats that you add when you prepare the meat , there's yet another potential reason for the bad effects of processed  meats on our health: many of them are only par meat, part additive. ...

Nitrate from Beets Improves Glucose Response to 75g CHO - Antibacterial Mouthwash Blocks This + Other Benefits

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Honestly, for me it's not the improved glucose management, but rather the proof that you must not use antibacterial mouthwash that's the takeaway, here. What? Yes, the use of mouthwash can ruin all beneficial effects of nitrate containing foods - those on your blood pressure, those on your pump and - as a recent study from the  Colorado State University  indicates - even the beneficial effects the co-ingestion of beetroot juice with carbohydrates will have on obese individuals' glucose tolerance. Oh, you're not obese? Well, in that case, the effect is not going to reach statistical significance, but since it's not going to be zero and you can learn something about the incompatibility of your nitrate-based pre-workout performance enhancing   pump supplement and antibacterial mouthwash, it's still worth reading the rest of today's SuppVersity  article. You can learn more about beetroot juice at the SuppVersity Ask Dr. Andro: Is Creatine Nitra...

Sitting or Lying, Not Walking Ups CrossFit Performance and Inter-Set Recovery | Nitrate Shot Allows for "One More Rep" | Electric Brain Stimulation Turns You into Hulk & More

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I have to admit: This is an awkward collection of studies, but this is what happens if you (cherry) pick and discuss only those of the papers in the latest issue of the Journal of Strength and Conditio-ning Research  which I personally found interesting / most interesting. Some of you have probably already been missing it. The short science round-ups with the latest scientific evidence from exercise and nutrition science all around the world. Studies such as Mosher's nitrate supplementation study that shows significant increases in the maximal number of reps during strength training. Studies such as Ouelette's study that refutes the notion that walking on a treadmill in-between sets is beneficial for trainees who are working out in the strength-conditioning range (crossfitters). Studies such as Wilson's review of the usefulness of CHO supplements with an unambiguous result in favor of CHO supplements. And studies like Lattari's who tested the effects of transcrani...

Synephrine More Ergogenic, Than Thermogenic? Pump Supps Revisited - L-Arginine, L-Citrulline and Respective Whey-Peptides & -Nitrates | ISSN Research Review '15 #2

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Synephrine, arginine, citrulline - Which pre-workout ensures that you're "on fire"? As I pointed out previously , my initial idea to cherry pick only the most interesting study results that were presented in form of of poster presentations at the Twelfth International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN) Conference and Expo in 2015 didn't work out. The number of interesting studies is is simply too much for a single SuppVersity  article to discuss them all. Accordingly, I am now posting the 2nd serving of what is going to be a multi-part series of articles with brief discussions of the most significant results of the >20 studies and short references to those that didn't make the SuppVersity  cut in this, previous and future installments of this series for one reason or another. Read more about ISSN and other studies at the SuppVersity Vitargo, Red Bull, Creatine & More | ISSN'15 #1 Pump Supps & Synephrine & X | ISSN'15 #2 Hi...
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